We produce 80% of our total bedding plant requirements, including 6,000 hanging baskets. Great emphasis is placed on plant quality and freedom from pests and disease. We have a policy of only using chemicals as the last resort and concentrate on other methods, such as high standards of hygiene and cultural care. Over one million plants are produced each year. There are always stocks of fresh plants available in quantity as batches are produced each week and these plants can be sent down to the Garden Centre within 10 minutes
Coolings Nursery
Production Nursery
Our largest production nursery is behind Arthurs Restaurant at Coolings The Gardener’s Garden Centre, Rushmore Hill, Knockholt, this covers an area of 4.5 acres. At Coolings Wych Cross Garden Centre we have restored the rose nursery and have begun growing thousands of plants on-site and these can be seen from the terrace of our Hybrid Tea Room, the smallest of our production nurseries is at Coolings Potted Garden Nursery in Bearsted near Maidstone.
Our enthusiastic and well-qualified team of horticulturalists have a wealth of experience between them and are responsible for overseeing the production of our Coolings plants.
Production Nursery Glasshouse at Coolings Gardener's Garden Centre, Knockholt
The Coolings Nursery Team potting up hanging baskets
Young plants in their recyclable taupe pots
Summer bedding growing in the Gardener's Garden Centre Glasshouse at Rushmore Hill
Our extensive irrigation system is fed by the rainwater collected in our reservoirs
One of our horticulturists hard at work
Preparing for Spring and Summer on the nursery nurturing our young plants
View from Hybrid Tea Room across the rose nursery at Coolings Wych Cross Garden Centre


